Published date: 3 July 2020
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Contract summary
Industry
Advertising and marketing services - 79340000
Marketing services - 79342000
Direct marketing services - 79342100
Location of contract
East Midlands, East of England, South East
Value of contract
£30,000 to £40,000
Procurement reference
MT220078
Published date
3 July 2020
Closing date
22 July 2020
Contract start date
18 August 2020
Contract end date
30 June 2022
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (below threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
Our aim is do as much as we can to provide tailored support to scale up and pre-scale up businesses
to generate economic opportunity, jobs and expansion by gaining new knowledge. Assessing their
growth to date and putting in place robust plans for the future and to support them through the key
challenges they are faced with when scaling their businesses. Through business growth workshops
in partnership with business experts from three local universities to develop a growth plan and how
to action it, 1:1 business coaching and Peer to peer networks to provide ongoing support to
businesses in their growth ambitions.
The primary key activities that have to be delivered include:
- Reporting the specific issues that businesses report as barriers for scaling, identify
emerging issues/trends in respect of growth.
- Providing weekly reports on activities including business numbers engaged; events
delivered, issues raised, issues resolved and issues to be escalated.
- Scaling up the number of businesses (particularly SMEs) engaged and cascading the
business resilience.
- Signpost businesses to other sources of further information and support (local, national,
public and private) where required.
Key requirements
SEMLEP would like to appoint a telemarketing organisation to help generate leads to our Growth
Curve Project
Generate leads and identify potential growth and high growth businesses and book appointments for
our advisers to carry out diagnostics and provide tailored support for these businesses. This will
include:
- Helping us to prepare communications that will attract businesses to take part in the
upscaling and growth project.
- Setting up a number of appointments for each of our advisers to carry out a 3-hour
business growth diagnostics and support.
- Specify the number of confirmed appointments you would generate over the lifetime of the
project for the advisers. This will contribute to our target of engaging with 500 businesses
before June 2022.
- Access will be given to the adviser's calendars. They will mark the time in their diary is
time for appointments. Sufficient time to travel to appointments needs to be given
- Recording calls for quality purposes.
- Emailing confirmation to advisers and copy to the data analyst
- Agreeing a script - A detailed communication will be given to the telemarketing company
on the benefits of the Growth Curve appointment which will be free of charge to the SME.
- Providing SEMLEP with the results of all telephone conversations with the businesses
called - to boost intelligence levels on business concerns and growth challenges.
- How you would manage under performance.
- The production of a weekly report.
- Monthly video meeting with SEMLEP for contract management.
- Please give an indication of the cost per appointment.
More information
Links
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- https://www.mytenders.co.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL160018
- Tender notice
- NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders Web Site at the link provided.
About the buyer
Contact name
Procurement
Address
Innovation Centre, Cranfield University Technology Park
University Way
Cranfield
MK43 0BT
England
Telephone
+44 1234436100
Website
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Closing: 22 July 2020